Fedora 17 Beta is distributed as an installable DVD and Live CDs with the latest stable version of the GNOME 3.4 desktop environment and KDE Software Compilation 4.8, as well as the lightweight Xfce and LXDE desktop environments, all for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

Remember that this is an beta release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only. If you encounter bugs please report them to the Red Hat Bugzilla.